Published: Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 06:36 PM.

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Snow Hill Primary School students planted almost 1,300 seeds over a three-day period under the leadership of Gene Riddle, Master Gardener of the Community Garden in Snow Hill. He and seven other master gardeners assisted first-graders with the project inside the splash room adjacent to the school’s greenhouse. Riddle has worked with the school greenhouse program for the last three years. He purchased some of the seeds while others were donated by Thompson and Morgan seed company and Carolina Soils of Kinston donated bags of soil.

“The students will plant the seeds, harvest them and then the food will be donated to food pantry,” said Riddle, who worked with Emily Wade’s first grade class on Thursday. It’s a lengthier process for the teacher and her class who will monitor the seeds.

“We’ll go out to the garden and we will look at them and watch the plants grow,” said Wade.

Learning about plants and their life cycle is a part of the schools science curriculum and Wade will focus more about plants and animals in the spring.

Snow Hill Primary School students planted almost 1,300 seeds over a three-day period under the leadership of Gene Riddle, Master Gardener of the Community Garden in Snow Hill. He and seven other master gardeners assisted first-graders with the project inside the splash room adjacent to the school’s greenhouse. Riddle has worked with the school greenhouse program for the last three years. He purchased some of the seeds while others were donated by Thompson and Morgan seed company and Carolina Soils of Kinston donated bags of soil.

“The students will plant the seeds, harvest them and then the food will be donated to food pantry,” said Riddle, who worked with Emily Wade’s first grade class on Thursday. It’s a lengthier process for the teacher and her class who will monitor the seeds.

“We’ll go out to the garden and we will look at them and watch the plants grow,” said Wade.

Learning about plants and their life cycle is a part of the schools science curriculum and Wade will focus more about plants and animals in the spring.

Student, Christopher Crummel thought the activity was fun after he and 18 other classmates scooped out soil and each took a turn planting and covering a collard seed. His favorite part was putting the seeds in.

“Cause this was my first time planting a plant,” he said.

Fellow student Madison Rohrbach had planted flowers and carrots before in her garden at home but had not planted collards. “The seeds were really tiny”, she said, “ I thought they would be medium.”

The greenhouse at the school will produce a variety of vegetables and plants over the next few months and Riddle made sure he didn’t leave anything out.